Frontier League Photo Gallery

Brian holds most of River City's career records.

Brian Fuess spent nearly four seasons with the River City Rascals before being traded to Gateway shortly before the end of the 2003 season. Brian led the FL in hits in 2000 and was named to the league's Tenth Season All Star Team.

Darin is in the top ten career leaders in several categories.

Darin Kinsolving broke in with River City in 2000. He then spent three seasons with the Chillicothe Paints and was named to the FL post-season All-Star team in 2003. Kinsolving returned to the FL in 2005 with Florence.

James currently works in youth baseball instruction in North Carolina.

James Molinari played from 2000-2003 with Canton, Gateway and River City. He holds the Gateway Grizzlies stolen base records for season and career.

Jeff's favorite song is "Amazing Grace".

Jeff Snyder hit .394 with the Portsmouth Explorers in 1995 to win the FL batting title before moving with the team to Springfield, IL. The other guy is me.

Joe was a teammate of Mark Mulder at Michigan State.

Joe and Angela Kalczynski. Joe was MVP of the FL All-Star Game in 2002 while playing for the DuBois County Dragons.

Josh Ury led Johnstown in hitting in 2002, and led River City in 2003, with a brief stop in Florence in between. Ury then moved to Chillicothe in 2005.

The Roosters retired more numbers in 2005.

The Richmond Roosters retired the numbers of versatile Chad Sosebee, famed slugger Morgan Burkhart and dependable Fran Riordan.

The Chillicothe Paints have retired the numbers of (L-R) Manager Roger Hanners, 3B Mitch House, P Brian Tollberg, 1B Scott Pinoni and OF Gator McBride.

The Frontier League championship trophy is shown here in the offices of the Richmond Roosters, where it resided for two seasons.

Joe Thatcher spent parts of two seasons in River City before reaching the majors with San Diego in 2007.

Rockford's Mike Marksbury was leading the league in saves in 2007 when he signed with Milwaukee.

 

Joe Thomas went undefeated in 2001, going 9-0 with a 1.36 ERA for the Canton Crocodiles.

 

The league's current office is in Troy, IL.

The Frontier League operated out of the second floor of this legal office building in Zanesville, OH for a decade.

Part of the fun at minor league baseball games is the entertainment, like the Famous Chicken.

Tony's son is GM of the Gateway Grizzlies.

Booster club presidents Fred Seaman (Mid-Missouri), Tim Perry (River City) and Tony Funderburg (Gateway) in 2003.

Third baseman Joe Ramos was an all star for Kalamazoo in 2007.

Andy Haines was Manager Of the Year in 2007 for leading Windy City to a record 68 wins.

Second baseman Ralph Santana provided a spark on both offense and defense for the Southern Illinois Miners in 2007.